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Welcome to Mountain Vista Wrestling, Home of the Golden Eagles |
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Our website is full of information about one of Highlands Ranch, Colorado's best wrestling programs. Find out information about the roster, coaches, alumni, the MV Wrestling Club, our calendar of events, and other important information. Be sure to check out pages on team records, post-season records, various wrestling links and a helpful page on Wrestling 101. This is... VISTA!! |
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Newsflash |
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Mountain Vista Gets 6 Placers at Poudre Invite |
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Jan. 14th -- Mountain Vista had one of its best showings at the Poudre Invitation. Several wrestlers had great days. AJ Sack and Frank Davis wrestled well enough to get 4th place. Darion Thomas-Trujillo went 4-1 on the day but also managed 4th place due to the 5-match limit, losing due to a tiebreak. Peter Merrick also went 4-1 for the tourney and pinned 2 ranked wrestlers on his way to a 3rd place finish. Dylan Bull had one of his toughest outings of the season. He finished 3rd following a very controversial and poorly officiated match. Dylan Formby had the best day with a 2nd place finish losing in the finals to a top 10 ranked wrestler. The team as a whole, finished in 6th place. |
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Mountain Vista Rules the Ranch Once Again |
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Jan. 12th – The Golden Eagles proved to be top dogs of Highlands Ranch once again as they dominate Highlands Ranch HS in the last home dual of the season for a dominant 51-10 victory. This makes it the 3rd year in a row and 4th time in 5 years Mountain Vista wins the Battle of the Ranch trophy, a title that signifies top wrestling program in Highlands Ranch. Pins by Bradley Colebank, Jackson Nichols, Darion Thomas-Trujillo, Peter Merrick, AJ Sack and Frank Davis as well as 2 forfeits gave Vista the easy victory. Match of the night was the battle between Vista’s Dylan Formby and #14 ranked Alex Esparza of HRHS at 145lbs. Dylan got out to a dominate 9-1 lead in the first two periods of the match. However, Esparza was able to battle back scoring 7 straight points but Formby eventually won the match 10-8.
In a limited split dual with Highlands Ranch’s JV and a newly formed Littleton squad, Vista won matches at the JV level. Falls by Logan Clark and Drake Gunter closed out the JV home dual for the season.
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Vista Wins Senior Night Dual |
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Jan. 10th – Mountain Vista battled for victory again as they honored both its senior class and promoted cancer awareness with a “Pink Out” Night. Vista beat Regis HS 41-30. Three forfeits and wins by underclassmen Darion Thomas-Trujillo, Dylan Formby and Bradley Colebank helped seal the victory. Vista’s seniors battled well but drew Regis toughest wrestlers. Both Peter Merrick and AJ Sack lost to top-10 ranked wrestlers in their weight classes. The sole senior to find victory was Dylan Bull who bumped up a weight class and pinned his opponent in the first period. |
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Vista Wrestlers Find Some Success at Ft Collins Tourney |
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Jan. 7th – The Vista varsity squad traveled up to Fort Collins to compete for the opening weekend of the 2012 calendar year. Some of our bright spots were Peter Merrick who went 3-2 and lost a couple of very close matches. Bradley Colebank went 2-2 on the day, as did Dylan Formby who wrestled in the most competitive weights of the tournament with 7 ranked wrestlers. He beat a top 15-ranked wrestler in his first round match though he eventually fell one victory short of placing. Dylan Bull had another great weekend dominating the competition and pinning his way through the finals. He saved his best match for last and pinned his final, state-ranked opponent in just over a minute. |
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Mountain Vista Beats Rival ThunderRidge |
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Jan. 6th – In what was easily the most exciting dual of the season to this point, the Mountain Vista Golden Eagles, for the 3rd year in a row, beat the ThunderRidge Grizzlies in a tight 36-27 win. Vista battled and wrestled impressively in a very hostile environment in front of the rowdy ThunderRidge crowd. Keys to the dual were two surprising pins by first time varsity wrestlers, Steve Lee and Spencer Erjavec. Their victories helped keep Vista in the match at the time and ultimately win. A pin by senior Peter Merrick and a one-point victory by Jacob Bancroft, which is what proved to be the deciding match, were also big to Vista’s success. However, the true match of the night was at 120lbs between #3 ranked Dylan Bull of Vista and #1 Kyndall Rutz of ThunderRidge. Though Rutz came out and scored the first 4 points of the match, Bull battled back in the last 2 periods and eventually won 5-4. This was, without a doubt, the match of the season.
JV failed to wrestle as well as varsity did against TRHS. Out of 7 matches, Vista only found two victories. Both Logan Clark and Bo Clements won by fall in their matches.
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Golden Eagles Dominate Rock Canyon in Biggest Win of the Season |
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Dec. 20th – Mountain Vista continued its success versus Rock Canyon in dominant fashion with a 63-16 win. Missing our two most success wrestlers, Vista’s roster numbers still proved too much for the Jaguars as we received 7 forfeits. Both Darion Thomas-Trujillo at 138 and Peter Merrick at 152 also added two solid victories by way of pin.
There wasn’t much action for the JV wrestlers as there were only two matches for the dual. We split victories with Rock Canyon as Drake Gunter won a close 9-7 decision in his JV match.
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JV Wrestlers Successful at Lakewood JV Tourney |
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Dec 17th – The Vista JV squad wrestled pretty impressively at a very competitive Lakewood JV tournament. Several of the Vista wrestlers placed in only the 2nd JV event of the season. Spencer Erjavec went 4-1 on the day for a 5th place finish. Nick Conner, Drake Gunter and Jacob Bancroft all went 2-2 to place 4th. West Novak battled to a 2-1 record and a 2nd place finish. As a whole, the JV team finished 6th place in the 16-team event. |
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Vista Wrestlers Rise to the Challenge |
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Dec. 16th& 17th -- The Mountain Vista wrestlers faced easily their toughest competition of the year at the UNC Christmas Tournament. The Golden Eagles were one of 57 teams at the event. Several of our wrestlers stepped up to the level of competition and wrestled impressively. Darion Thomas-Trujillo, Dylan Formby, Peter Merrick all went 3-2 and Jackson Nichols went 2-2. Great work by all of those boys. Dylan Bull was Vista’s only placer and continued his impressive season by beating both the #6 ranked 5A wrestler and the #3 ranked 4A at 120lbs. He, ultimately, finished 2nd to the #1 ranked 4A wrestler. |
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Deja Vu - Another Close Loss to Hinkley |
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Dec. 14th - As if it was our theme for this season, Vista wrestling lost another very close dual to a tough Hinkley squad. The Vista wrestlers battled and competed pretty well but didn't have enough firepower to outscore the Thunderbirds with a 34-35 loss. Similar to 4 other duals this year, it came down to the last match of the night and Vista fell short. Last season, Hinkley edged the Golden Eagles by a small margin to take the victory. Deja Vu is a major bummer. A couple of highlights of the night were the 3 consecutive pins put up by Jackson Nichols, Darion Thomas-Trujillo and Dylan Formby. That really keep the Golden Eagles in the match. Also, #3 ranked Dylan Bull beat a top-15 ranked wrestler by a score of 6-3. As always, solid wrestling on his part. Vista now looks to compete in one of the top wrestling events in the state at the UNC Christmas Tournament.
In limited JV action, Vista was victorious in two matches. Spencer Erjavec and Nick Conner both won by fall. |
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JV Team Brings Home a Trophy |
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Dec. 10th -- The Golden Eagle JV squad competed very well at the first JV only event of the year. The team finished in 3rd place and lost only to the eventual champions. Not only did the team compete well as a whole but several wrestlers walked away from Saturday's matches with winning records. 5 wrestlers went 3-1 for the day. The team's bright spot was Nick Conner who had a team best (both varsity and JV) 4-0 record on the day. The JV squad looks to continue its success at the Lakewood JV Tournament next weekend. |
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